I think the question is, why don't other fields put this huge emphasis on the fear of bullshitters and frauds? My take: There's some extreme sampling bias at p

I think the question is, why don't other fields put this huge emphasis on the fear of bullshitters and frauds? My take: There's some extreme sampling bias at play. Everyone knows at least one horror story where someone managed to bullshit their way to a position. Now they imagine that this must be a problem, while ignoring the vast majority of devs they've worked with that were legitimate developers. The field of software engineering is also much more personal and opinionated than traditional engineering. This lowers the threshold for what devs. will classify as "frauds" - not because the people they accuse might actually be frauds, but because they are not up to their standards.